Tuesday, 18 June 2013

1980: BLAKE'S SEVEN VFX in STARBURST MAGAZINE (Marvel UK)

Continuing my occasional series of behind-the-scenes articles on the special effects of TV shows that begin with the letter "B", here's a nice article, from the 20th issue of Marvel UK's STARBURST, covering the SFX of BLAKE'S SEVEN.

It's a show with a (sometimes deserved) reputation for ropey visuals which - I think - makes this piece even more interesting as it shows these things weren't always just thrown together at the last moment.

The BBC Visual Effects Unit is long-since defunct, the victim of changing technology and the multiple restructuring within the Beeb.

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It's a repository, and celebration, of Geek Media (mostly print) from the 'Star Age': that pre-millennial period between, roughly, 1972 (the opening of Marvel UK) and 1999 (the release of The Phantom Menace... and the end of innocence). But, of course, we'll bend the rules when we want to.
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